What are the specs of Beats Solo 2?

[SSL]

$100 gamer headphones and $200 audiophile headphones (considering the 598's use the 558's drivers) sound the same. That's only for Dubstep though, as the bass on both headphones are great. Other kinds of music are totally different on the headphones.

 

The HD598 is identical to the HD558, which costs about $100 these days. It's a $100 headphone for all intents and purposes.

 

The HD5x8 bass actually has significant room for improvement: significant roll-off below resonance, rising distortion over 1%, poor power handling.

 

As can be seen here: http://www.innerfidelity.com/images/SennheiserHD598.pdf

[olbaze]

Im having an arguement with someone about Beats. I say they are crap, and they say the are the best, so I'm trying to find specs on Beats and I can't find them anywhere. Can someone find me the tech specs on solo 2s? Like frequencies and stuff.

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121226002509/installgentoo/images/7/7c/1335901596068.png <- a great, easy to understand picture going over some of the specs of the Beats Studios and comparing them to a bunch of headphones.

 

One good question to ask from people who want to buy Beats is always going to be "Do you want them because they look nice? Because a lot of people have them? Because they are easy to recognize as something that's pretty expensive?" Meanwhile there's a guy with IE80s next to you that you can't even see because he's wearing a beanie that covers his ears. Or you look at that one guy with really ghetto looking headphones and think "Man, those must be some shit from the 1970s or something", not realizing that he's wearing Grado PS500es.

[Philosobyte]

Im having an arguement with someone about Beats. I say they are crap, and they say the are the best, so I'm trying to find specs on Beats and I can't find them anywhere. Can someone find me the tech specs on solo 2s? Like frequencies and stuff.

I'm not sure what the newest model is, but here's a spec sheet for a version of the headphone in 2014, at least: http://www.innerfidelity.com/images/BeatsSoloII2014.pdf

Innerfidelity has a ton of specs: http://www.innerfidelity.com/headphone-data-sheet-downloads

 

The square wave response looks quite lamentable. 

[Lutkeveld]

The HD598 is identical to the HD558, which costs about $100 these days. It's a $100 headphone for all intents and purposes.

The HD5x8 bass actually has significant room for improvement: significant roll-off below resonance, rising distortion over 1%, poor power handling.

As can be seen here: http://www.innerfidelity.com/images/SennheiserHD598.pdf

Every driver in a sealed enclosure rolls off below resonance. Every speaker has more distortion than 1%. I dont see why power handling matters much with a headphone.

[SSL]

Every driver in a sealed enclosure rolls off below resonance. Every speaker has more distortion than 1%. I dont see why power handling matters much with a headphone.

1. Yeah, I know. 6dB/octave free air resonance or whatever. Or 12. Can't remember. Point is, not all headphones are sealed enclosures, and not all headphones are dynamic drivers. Roll-off in itself isn't bad, so much as how the headphone is engineered to perform as the driver goes out of linear response and into compliance-controlled operating conditions. Headphones that do this poorly generally have greater nonlinear behavior and a loose/slow/mushy sound in the bottom octaves.
2. Speaking of nonlinear behavior: in the world of headphones, anything over 1%@100dB above 100-200Hz is of interest. Anything approaching 10% is of concern. The very best headphones stay close to 0.1% over the audible range.
3. I'm sorry that you don't see why power handling matters with a headphone. Ask anyone who has owned the Shure SRH1540 and likes to listen loud.